I applied through a recruiter. I interviewed at Amazon (Boston, MA) in Apr 2025
Interview
Online screen with coding exercise and behavioral questions.
Then onsite loop interviews with presentations, various coding exercise (including DFS), a ML system design questions, depth and breadth knowledge questions, and a ton of behavioral questions.
Two phone screen interviews
Discussion and deep dive into domain knowledge for both of them, second interview had one coding question in addition about weighted random number generator, then followed by insite loop interview
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
coding question about weighted random number generator
- Coding Round: 1 coding question on Binary Search
- Technical Round: Lots of questions on ML and DL
- Case Study: Related to product development
- Project Discussion: Current project and what are the challenges faced. Also, some of the relevant older projects
Recruiter kept ghosting. Eventually, had an interview scheduled. But interviewer ghosted. Then got back to recruiter, who said they will schedule another interview, but ghosted again. Very unprofessional behavior from such a large firm.
Senior Applied Scientist applicants have rated the interview process at Amazon with 2.8 out of 5 (where 5 is the highest level of difficulty) and assessed their interview experience as 50% positive. To compare, the company-average is 57.5% positive. This is according to Glassdoor user ratings.
Candidates applying for Senior Applied Scientist roles take an average of 30 days to get hired, when considering 12 user submitted interviews for this role. To compare, the hiring process at Amazon overall takes an average of 28 days.
Common stages of the interview process at Amazon as a Senior Applied Scientist according to 12 Glassdoor interviews include:
Phone interview: 39%
Skills test: 22%
One on one interview: 17%
Presentation: 11%
IQ intelligence test: 6%
Group panel interview: 6%
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